I've been around the recruiting world for the past 20 years, my father worked for Scout in the early days of the recruiting boom, and I've never seen anything like what Taggart was able to pull off on Wednesday.

Florida State just signed five-star safety Jaiden Woodbey away from Ohio State and Southern Cal.

That would be a solid pull by itself, but when you consider the other factors involved, it's bordering on ludicrous.

Woodbey is from Fontana, CA, which is 2,205 miles away from Doak Campbell Stadium.

FSU offered just eight days before the early signing period. FSU's previous staff passed on recruiting him because they didn't think they would have a legitimate shot at landing him.

He took a short, one day official visit to FSU just four days after he picked up the offer. The visit immediately followed his official visit with home town USC.

FSU doesn't have a full coaching staff and no defensive coordinator or secondary coach.

Recruiting always gets weird around signing day, but this pull shouldn't be possible.

It just shouldn't happen. Pulling a five-star with even one of those conditions would be considered a major recruiting coup.

The closest recruiting pull to this would be four-star safety Jerimy Finch, who committed to Florida without ever taking a visit after Urban Meyer extended an offer to him in 2007.

But Finch was committed to Indiana at the time. Not traditional power Ohio State.

That was also Urban Meyer's highest ranked recruiting class at Florida when the Gators were in the midst of a two titles in three year span and Urban Meyer's recruiting ability was unparalleled in college football.

This is a coach that has been on campus for 14 days.

That's the power of an ace recruiter like Willie Taggart at a school that can recruit nationally like Florida State.

Taggart has become known as one of the best recruiters in the country, and he did that at Oregon and South Florida, which aren't traditional recruiting powers.

Putting him in a Florida State visor has only amplified that strength.

Recruiting was one of the main reasons he was hired at FSU, but no one could have expected his impact to reach this far, this fast.

It puts the college football world on notice that Taggart is going to make things very difficult for other schools with recruits that he wants.

Taggart spent most of his first week as FSU's head coach securing the commitments that FSU already had and reassuring them that the Seminoles are heading in the right direction.

He walked in to an extremely tough situation, not just with the early signing period, but being forced to mend fences with nearly every recruit after the previous staff essentially stopped recruiting in October.

FSU commits Robert Cooper, Amari Gainer, and Christian Armstrong signed on Wednesday, and four-star defensive back Isaiah Bolden is expected to sign with FSU on Friday. Four-star defensive back A.J. Lytton is also expected to sign early.

Now Taggart will turn his full attention to building the Seminoles' class around those players and bringing in players that fit his system.

He's also putting together a staff of ace recruiters around him to help him with that task.

Raymond Woodie, Telly Lockette, and Donte' Pimpleton are all considered to be some of the top recruiters in the country, and Odell Haggins, FSU's defensive tackles coach, is also highly regarded as a recruiter.

Once his staff is in place -- FSU will be able to hire its full staff after the Seminoles bowl game on Dec. 27 -- Taggart will have a month to round out the rest of the class before signing day.

With Taggart leading the way for that staff, it's going to be one heck of a ride to the finish, and one that FSU fans should really enjoy.